Resolutions & Amendments

34th International Convention Resolutions

Resolutions

  1. Support for increased access to prescription drug coverage
  2. Protecting the rights of disabled workers
  3. Winning good contracts through member mobilization
  4. Labor's vital interest in organizing union retirees
  5. Organizing Head Start workers
  6. Support for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues
  7. Privatization of highways
  8. Welfare reform
  9. Increase federal housing and Community Development Block Grant funding
  10. School vouchers
  11. Paraprofessionals in the classroom
  12. Building union power within industries
  13. Universal health coverage
  14. Drug and alcohol testing
  15. Reducing medical errors
  16. Administrators making decisions about medical coverage to the harm and detriment of patients
  17. Creation of AFSCME veterans advisory committee
  18. Employment security and the workforce system
  19. Expanding communications capacities of AFSCME affiliates
  20. Reducing needlestick injuries
  21. Declining timber sales and county revenues
  22. Hospital/medical insurance coverage
  23. Initiation and reinstatement fees
  24. PEOPLE training and education
  25. Defending defined benefit pension plans
  26. Implementing quality services in government
  27. Joint training and workforce development programs
  28. Support for paid family leave
  29. Leadership development
  30. PEOPLE checkoff
  31. Strengthening the public health safety net
  32. AFSCME strategic plan for the future
  33. An organizing model of labor education
  34. Using health and safety to build the union
  35. Charter schools
  36. Non-physicians making medical determinations on claimants applying for Social Security disability
  37. Cesar Chavez holiday
  38. Quality care, quality jobs
  39. Removing symbols of the Confederacy
  40. Raising the minimum limits for filing the 990 and 990-EZ forms
  41. Defending the human rights of the people of Vieques, Puerto Rico
  42. Cancel the debt of developing countries
  43. The battle for an OSHA ergonomics standard
  44. Electronic commerce and the state sales and use tax
  45. The crisis in our criminal justice system
  46. Support for local treasurers
  47. Member only benefits
  48. Skyrocketing corporate executives' incomes
  49. Support of immigrants and refugees to join a union
  50. Truth in manufacturing
  51. Privacy rights for public employees
  52. Allow free exchange between trade unionists
  53. Maintain Social Security benefits
  54. Establish a national caucus for social service employees
  55. Bargaining to organize
  56. Support for AFSCME's organizing program
  57. Organizing convention
  58. Invest in America now
  59. Enforcing state employees' rights
  60. Coordinated effort to enhance the image of public service
  61. Collective bargaining rights and public employees
  62. Census 2000
  63. The AFSCME privatization campaign
  64. The 2000 elections
  65. Support for the Campaign for Global Fairness
  66. Opposing prison privatization
  67. Goals of the PEOPLE program
  68. Central collection of union dues
  69. Support international conventions on women's rights
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Sen. Barack Obama

Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) addressed AFSCME's 38th International Convention on Thursday, July 31, 2008.